Scientific Administration Support Officer

You will provide essential daily administrative and scientific support  duties for both the Proficiency Testing Schemes (PT) and Sample Reception (SR) Teams. Further details of SR services can be found on our website here: Health and Hygiene Testing

The PT Scheme is a service on offer from HSE. The PT Scheme is a quality assurance tool used to assess the performance and accuracy of laboratories, organisations, or individuals conducting specific tests or measurements. It involves the participation of laboratories in a program where they are provided with samples or test materials to analyse, without knowing the correct results beforehand.

Your role will be to provide routine administration support for the delivery of the  asbestos PT scheme offered by HSE. This will include, but will not be limited to handling the day to day administration of the service, including liaison with UK and international participants. The role will also include packing and despatch duties.

You will also support the Sample Reception Team, processing daily sample bookings for analysis, preparation of customer quotations, despatching sample kits to customers and issuing analysis reports to internal and external customers. Part of the role will involve working in a laboratory environment,  handling packaged pathological specimen samples (for example blood and urine) and other packaged potential hazardous materials (for example environmental samples including anthrax and asbestos), in a controlled and safe laboratory environment.

You will be responsible for the essential day to day administration of the services. This will include answering telephone and email enquiries in a timely manner, managing email inbox’s and issuing reports to internal and external customers. Your role will be split between working in an office and laboratory environment.

Procurement Officer

The primary purpose of this job role is to deliver a contract letting and procurement function managing end-to-end procurement and contract letting processes in accordance with the relevant Procurement Regulations.

The Procurement Unit aims to provide commercial focus in the procurement service it provides to the organisation and to implement a more consistent approach to managing strategically important contracts in accordance with the Government Commercial Function principles to help us meet the challenges we face and support the business in delivering its regulatory and commercial functions.

Operational Support Team Leader

This is a fixed term appointment, for up to 23 months within the Director of Regulation (DoR). We provide operational support to operational inspection, investigation and specialist teams based in various offices around the country.

We are looking for individuals skilled in organising and leading, to effectively manage the delivery of a broad range of administrative support functions and are keen to become successful leaders.

Senior Financial Accountant

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role within the Planning, Finance, and Procurement Division (PFPD) Finance function. You will work within Central Finance, leading a small team alongside the Head of Financial Accounting and Reporting supporting HSE’s audit, the production of the Annual Report and Accounts and other key financial processes, providing advice to both senior colleagues and Finance Business Partners. This role provides an excellent opportunity for development, that could lead to progression within PFPD/HSE or the wider Government Finance Community.

You will support the Head of Financial Accounting and senior colleagues, providing advice on a range of accounting and reporting issues such as balance sheet queries, VAT, fixed assets and bad debt, ensuring HSE complies with HMT’s Consolidated Budgeting guidance and adheres to Managing Public Money.

You will be supported by a small team of part-qualified finance professionals and trainees, which you will lead, providing support and direction and ensuring they adopt a culture of continuous improvement.

Incident Imaging Officer AIS

This exciting opportunity will be based in the Science Division of the HSE at our research laboratory and unique outdoor testing facilities, in Buxton, Derbyshire.

We are looking for someone to join our Advanced Imaging Solutions (AIS) team in the Major Hazards Capability Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support HSE incident investigations and research and testing projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces.

You can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, especially HSE incident investigation support, and also be involved in work for other government departments and industrial clients.

You will be part of a team delivering imaging support (land- and aerial-based laser scanning; 3D modelling and animation; CCTV analysis; aerial and high-speed imaging; digital stills imaging), primarily in relation to incident investigations. You will also be required to regularly collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

Network & Telephony Engineer

An exciting position has become available in our IT division to work as a Network and Telephony Engineer.

You will support the management of the HSE’s network and telephony infrastructure, ensuring that the infrastructure (layer 2/3 switches, WiFi APs, VPNs, load-balancing appliances, firewalls, VOIP, contact centres) remains available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements.

 

Customer Services Officer

You will be working on behalf of Customer Services in a contact centre, as a call handler. Your main responsibility is to answer calls in a professional manner; direct customers to the HSE website and/or complete online forms on behalf of customers, redirect customers if it is not a matter for HSE to deal with and point customers to relevant health and safety information.

Telephone calls are varied and unpredictable in nature. Calls are received from members of the public, businesses, employees, employers, TU Reps, Local Authorities, and others. Calls range from reporting a fatal accident to dealing with a member of the public who requires advice and everything in-between. You will need to be empathic in your approach.

As a customer service officer, you will also deal with switchboard calls for named contacts within HSE and you will also undertake administrative support duties.

You will work collaboratively with internal and external customers to obtain accurate and relevant information. You will ensure that responses are professional, accurate and timely.

Scientific & Administration Support Officer

We have 2 exciting opportunities for enthusiastic and motivated individuals, with an interest in both administrative duties and science to join the Health – Exposure & Control Group (H-EC Group), at the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).

Specifically, the roles will be to support the Asbestos Proficiency Testing (PT) and Sample Reception team (SR) activities undertaken within the H-EC Group.

More details about the services available at the Science & Research Centre and HSE can be found on our website here: www.hse.gov.uk

Technical Architect

HSE’s Information, Technology and Services includes an Enterprise Architecture Team. This team is primarily responsible the development of an Enterprise Architecture (including Business, Data, Applications and Technology domains), defining and executing technology strategy, and also for directing and assuring the delivery of new IT Solutions.

This Technical Architect role is to lead on the Technology Architecture domain, and direct and govern the design and delivery of new technology components, and the end-to-end design that uses those components to deliver new IT solutions.

You will have a key role in developing technology roadmaps, target architectures, and reusable components, and determining how we best transition from legacy solutions to modern services that help HSE to meet its business objectives.

Senior Knowledge and Information Manager

This opportunity is in the Knowledge and Information Management Team who work closely with Information Governance colleagues to ensure that HSE can use data to make better decisions, policies and services. We help create an environment where data protection and privacy is balanced with access, sharing and innovation.

We provide expert advice and guidance on handling records throughout their lifecycle, work with colleagues to develop new information architectures in response to changes in business need or the implementation of new technology and support the capturing and sharing of information and much more.

You will lead a team of subject matter experts (SME) to provide advice and guidance to HSE in respect of information handling and security, information lifecycle management and the interpretation of policy, ensuring performance meets or exceeds service level agreements and key performance indicators. Develop, implement and continually review and refine HSE’s information management including policy and processes to promote good practice within HSE and facilitate access to information to maximise its exploitation and re-use.

You will also support information risk owners in discharging their responsibilities, working closely with HSE’s Data Protection and Information Governance colleagues to ensure we meet compliance with statutory obligations.